APA 7th Referencing Style Guide

APA 7th Referencing Style Guide · About this guide · Referencing & APA style · APA manual, brief guide, videos & other tools · Reference list vs. SkiptoMainContent AUTLibraryLibraryGuidesAPA7thReferencingStyleGuideReferencing&APAstyle SearchthisGuide Search APA7thReferencingStyleGuide Referencing&APAstyleAboutthisguideReferencing&APAstyleAPAmanual,briefguide,videos&othertoolsReferencelistvs.BibliographyIn-textcitationReferencelistElementsofareferenceFormat&examplesofareferencelistArticlesBooksConferencesReports&greyliteratureFigures(graphsandimages)TablesThesesanddissertationsAudiovisualmediaAudioworksFilms,TV&videoVisualworksComputersoftware,games&appsDatasetsLecturenotes&IntranetresourcesLegalresourcesPersonalcommunicationsPowerPointslidesSocialmediaSpecifichealthexamplesStandards&patentsWebsites&webpagesFootnotesandappendicesFrequentlyaskedquestions Aboutthisguide ThisAPAreferencingstyleguide provides someinsightintoAPAstylerules.YoumaygetsomeideasaboutwhatistheAPA7threferencingstylefrom ourAPA7thbriefguide first,thenfindmorereferencingexampleswithinthisguideor from thePublicationManualoftheAmericanPsychologicalAssociation(7thedition). Wherethereisuncertaintyincitingaparticularsource,checkyourcourseguidelinesandclarifywithyourlecturers. Referencing&APAstyle Referencing Referencingisaboutacknowledging the ownershipofresourcesusedinyouracademicwriting, andprovidesinformationnecessarytoidentifyandretrievetheworkcitedinthetext. Therearemanydifferentreferencingstyles.At AUTmostcoursesusetheAPAreferencestyle.   WhatisAPA? APAreferencingstyleisanauthor-date referencingsystem publishedbytheAmericanPsychologicalAssociation.  TherearetwocomponentsintheAPAreferencingstyle: in-textcitationsandtheircorrespondingreference listentries.Withanything thatyouhaveread,used and referredtoinyouracademicwriting,youmust: acknowledge intext (i.e.inthework/assignment/essayyouarewriting) includeinyour referencelist (i.e.thelistattheendofyourworkofallthesourcesyoureferto)   Referencemanagementsoftware Youmayuseareferencesoftwaretomanageyourreferences. ThemostpopularsoftwareareEndNote,MendeleyandZotero. APAmanual,briefguide,videos&othertools APA7thbriefguide APA7thbriefguide CreatedbyAUTLibraryforAUTstudents. APA7thbriefguideforcitingtables&figures CreatedbyAUTLibraryforAUTstudents. APAmanual PublicationmanualoftheAmericanPsychologicalAssociation.(2019).7thedition,AmericanPsychologicalAssociation.  APAonlineresources Findadditional Referenceexamples from theAPAwebsite VisittheAPAStyleBlog foranswerstotrickyreferencingquestions APAconciseguide ConciseguidetoAPAstyle:TheofficialAPAstyleguideforstudents. (2020).7thedition,AmericanPsychologicalAssociation:guidelinesforscholarlywritingusingAPAstyles. APAvideos   AUT APA7th videosonYouTube AUT APA7th videos(Panoptoversion) Referencing tools APAInteractivebyMasseyUniversity QuickCitebytheUniversityofAucklandLibrary ComparisonchartofkeychangesbetweenAPA6thandAPA7th bytheUniversityofAucklandLibrary Referencelistvs.Bibliography A referencelist listsonlythesourcesyourefertoinyourwriting. Thepurposeofthereferencelististoallowyoursourcestobebefoundbyyourreader. Italsogivescredittoauthorsyouhaveconsultedfortheirideas. Allreferencescitedinthetextmustappearinthereferencelist,exceptforpersonalcommunications(suchasconversationsoremails)whichcannotberetrieved.  A bibliography isdifferentfromareferencelistasitlistsallthesourcesusedduringyourresearchandbackgroundreading,notjusttheonesyourefertoinyourwriting. Next:In-textcitation>>